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...Jaruzelski regime, meanwhile, continued to move against its opponents through its harsh system of military and civil justice. In the longest prison sentence handed out for a martial law violation so far, Ewa Kubasiewicz was given ten years in jail for organizing a strike at a Gdansk merchant marine college where she was a student. A Katowice court gave jail terms of three to four years to four alleged organizers of a strike at the Wujek coal mine, where at least seven civilians were killed in clashes with police on Dec. 16. The provincial prosecutor in Gdansk said that Solidarity...
...Gdansk, the Baltic seaport where Solidarity was born in August 1980, the spirit of resistance still burned. More than 200 students and workers were arrested there after clashes with police on Jan. 30. Foreign journalists visited the area last week on a government-organized tour and found many workers unshaken in their loyalty to Solidarity. "We have to have unions as before," said a hull-assembly worker at Lenin Shipyard. "In this country, with its [Communist] system, it is not possible to have a true union that is not political. If the government will not give it to us, then...
...sullen calm seems to hang over Gdansk. But beneath the surface, a dangerous and defiant mood can be seen in underground leaflets, posters and graffiti. Said one message chalked on a metal door in the port of Gdynia, near Gdansk: THE WINTER IS YOURS- THE SPRING WILL BE OURS. Seeking to dampen Gdansk's rebellious spirit, authorities recently removed an inscription from a wall behind the towering monument to workers killed in the 1970 uprising. It read: "They died so that you could live in dignity." Effacing those words will not destroy the memory of the Gdansk martyrs...
Unbaptized, unnamed, and as yet unseen by her father, the tiny raven-haired baby-the seventh child-was born in Gdansk, Poland, on Jan. 27. Her father, Lech Walesa, 38, was far away, interned by the Polish military authorities reportedly in a guesthouse outside Warsaw. The photograph of his wife Danuta and their child, the first known to exist, was taken by a Solidarity photographer and smuggled out to the West. The archbishop of Wroclaw, Henryk Gulbinowicz, is trying to organize a baptism for the infant with the entire Walesa clan in attendance. As for whether the proud father would...
...government blamed the Gdansk upheaval on the Reagan Administration's increasingly strident criticism of martial law. In particular, they attacked the U.S.-sponsored telecast Let Poland Be Poland, which was beamed by satellite to at least 50 countries last week. Complained Warsaw's party daily, Trybuna Ludu: "It is not by accident that the street demonstrations in Gdansk coincided with the so-called Solidarity Day [Jan. 30] proclaimed in the United States...